For most of us, colonial America is a time period vaguely remembered from history lessons in school as children. Important figures such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin stand out ...

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one person at a time, one law at a time, even one colony at a time. All servants imported and brought ...

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Opinion. When Donald Trump casually floated the idea of purchasing Greenland in 2019, many dismissed it as another outlandish ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the ... Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy. The timing of the Virginia colony was ideal.